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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-10

ATH @ CWS

Home plate: Emil Jimenez

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.3% accurate
0.8
Run Favor
runs, ATH
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Emil Jimenez called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Kyle Teel — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Chase Meidroth — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Jonah Heim — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▼8 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Munetaka Murakami vs Carlos Cortes
  2. 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Munetaka Murakami vs Carlos Cortes
  3. 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Tristan Peters vs Justin Sterner

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Kyle Teel — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.